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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
4240
2
Bye, Amazon
3816
3
Every Google result now looks like an ad
3592
4
Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
3089
5
Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever
2953
6
No Cookie for You
2941
7
SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit
2856
8
Gears
2760
9
Social Cooling (2017)
2692
10
YouTube-dl's repository has been restored
2636

Top Ask HN

1
I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?
3270
2
Am I the longest-serving programmer – 57 years and counting?
2634
3
Why is Reddit on mobile so obsessed with making me use their app?
1403
4
I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?
1337
5
What's your quarantine side project?
1336
6
Name one idea that changed your life
1084
7
Who is hiring right now?
1083
8
What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?
1081
9
What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?
1006
10
Mind bending books to read and never be the same as before?
961

Top Show HN

1
I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels
1589
2
I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
1392
3
Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files
1087
4
SHA-256 Animation
1053
5
A basketball hoop to maximize shots that go in [video]
971
6
This Word Does Not Exist
956
7
I built an After Effects for dummies
868
8
Fraidycat
807
9
Plotting 3 years of hourly data in 150ms
785
10
Linux sysadmin course, eight years on
780

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • techcrunch.com
  • venturebeat.com
  • gizmodo.com
  • arstechnica.com
  • theverge.com
  • wired.com
  • vice.com
  • zdnet.com
  • engadget.com
  • technologyreview.com
  • cnet.com
  • vox.com
  • fastcompany.com
  • protocol.com
  • wired.co.uk
  • therecord.media
  • qz.com
  • techradar.com
  • techspot.com
  • pcgamer.com
  • thenextweb.com
  • restofworld.org
  • bleepingcomputer.com
1
Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs
1869
2
Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store
1704
3
Zoom lied to users about end-to-end encryption for years, FTC says
1616
4
India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps
1483
5
Zoom iOS app sends data to Facebook even if you don’t have a Facebook account
1433
6
Larry Tesler Has Died
1346
7
What Happened to Lee
1298
8
SETI@home shuts down after 21 years
1216
9
No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU data protection body
1108
10
Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US labor board alleges
933

News [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • nytimes.com
  • theguardian.com
  • edition.cnn.com
  • bloomberg.com
  • bbc.com
  • wsj.com
  • reuters.com
  • washingtonpost.com
  • cnbc.com
  • theatlantic.com
  • bbc.co.uk
  • theregister.com
  • npr.org
  • economist.com
  • ft.com
  • cnn.com
  • forbes.com
  • newyorker.com
  • apnews.com
  • axios.com
  • businessinsider.com
  • finance.yahoo.com
  • nbcnews.com
  • msn.com
  • thehill.com
  • independent.co.uk
  • nypost.com
  • dw.com
  • lite.cnn.com
  • slate.com
  • scmp.com
  • politico.com
  • latimes.com
  • nbcnews.com
  • fortune.com
  • news.yahoo.com
  • aljazeera.com
  • asia.nikkei.com
  • time.com
  • sfchronicle.com
  • abc.net.au
  • cbsnews.com
  • euronews.com
  • telegraph.co.uk
  • reason.com
  • cbc.ca
  • dailymail.co.uk
  • theintercept.com
  • sfgate.com
  • politico.eu
  • buzzfeednews.com
1
Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
3089
2
Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever
2953
3
Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained
2272
4
Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after Tiananmen event
2003
5
Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% protection
1887
6
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died
1738
7
Ninth Circuit rules NSA's bulk collection of Americans' call records was illegal
1722
8
U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly
1572
9
U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation
1489
10
Africa declared free of wild polio
1387

Scientific publications [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • arxiv.org
  • phys.org
  • spectrum.ieee.org
  • space.com
  • ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
  • pnas.org
  • nasa.gov
1
SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit
2856
2
Arecibo Observatory Collapsed
776
3
The Sci-Hub Effect: Sci-Hub downloads lead to more article citations
754
4
Ex-Googler's startup comes out of stealth with simple, clever robot design
524
5
Evidence that the key assumption made in discovery of dark energy is in error
486
6
GPT-3: Language Models Are Few-Shot Learners
431
7
Every Model Learned by Gradient Descent Is Approximately a Kernel Machine
406
8
The neuroinvasive potential of SARS-CoV2
403
9
Bosch Smart glasses: A tiny laser array paints images directly onto your retina
400
10
Insect-worn microcamera streams video to phone 120 meters away
373

Dev Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • phoronix.com
  • lwn.net
  • thenewstack.io
  • hackernoon.com
  • blog.twitter.com
  • blog.mozilla.org
  • openai.com
  • engineering.fb.com
  • stripe.com
  • krebsonsecurity.com
  • coindesk.com
  • blog.google
  • brendangregg.com
  • threatpost.com
  • stackoverflow.blog
  • github.blog
  • infoq.com
  • portswigger.net
  • betterprogramming.pub
  • ai.googleblog.com
  • blog.cloudflare.com
  • devblogs.microsoft.com
  • cloud.google.com
  • schneier.com
  • nextplatform.com
  • developer.apple.com
1
No Cookie for You
2941
2
YouTube-dl's repository has been restored
2636
3
Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack
2595
4
GitHub is now free for teams
2589
5
NPM Is Joining GitHub
1829
6
Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products
1602
7
Mozilla VPN
1363
8
Standing up for developers: YouTube-dl is back
1275
9
Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages
1106
10
Who’s behind the “reopen” domain surge?
988

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers
1365
2
How We Saved Dot Org
1187
3
Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account
1169
4
Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro
1080
5
iOS 13 app tracking alert has dramatically cut location data flow to ad industry
781
6
Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear fusion tech?
760
7
Dutch brewery burns iron as a clean, recyclable fuel
751
8
2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test
724
9
Cover Your Tracks
694
10
BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X
672

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
New iPhone SE
1539
2
Amazon EC2 Mac Instances
1091
3
AirPods Max
996
4
Apple Announces App Store Small Business Program
830
5
Apple and Google partner on Covid-19 contact tracing technology
823
6
New 13-inch MacBook Pro
726
7
S3 Strong Consistency
699
8
macOS Big Sur
654
9
Introducing the next generation of Mac
642
10
New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support
638

Misc and Hobbies [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • thedrive.com
  • atlasobscura.com
  • electrek.co
  • aeon.co
  • lesswrong.com
  • hbr.org
  • torrentfreak.com
  • nationalgeographic.com
  • docs.google.com
  • web.archive.org
  • stratechery.com
  • archive.org
1
Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” flying alongside them
900
2
RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHub’s CEO
772
3
Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)
755
4
The Anti-Amazon Alliance
681
5
George Floyd Protest – police brutality videos on Twitter
657
6
A man owns the most advanced private air force after buying 46 F/A-18s
652
7
When Hubble stared at nothing for 100 hours (2015)
611
8
EFF and heavyweight legal team will defend Internet Archive against publishers
600
9
YouTube Class Action: Same IP Address Upload Pirate Movies and File DMCA Notices
552
10
Minecraft's “Pack.png” Seed Reversal Methodology
528

Science News [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • nature.com
  • livescience.com
  • techxplore.com
  • interestingengineering.com
  • science.org
  • medicalxpress.com
  • quantamagazine.org
  • scientificamerican.com
  • theconversation.com
  • nautil.us
  • sciencealert.com
  • smithsonianmag.com
  • news.mit.edu
  • sciencedaily.com
  • sciencedirect.com
  • scitechdaily.com
  • newscientist.com
  • sciencemag.org
  • eurekalert.org
  • bmj.com
1
Room-Temperature Superconductivity Achieved for the First Time
1235
2
Smithsonian Releases 2.8M Images into Public Domain
1115
3
MIT Ends Elsevier Negotiations
1104
4
Arecibo telescope, on the brink of collapse, will be dismantled
830
5
Why the US military usually punishes misconduct but police often close ranks
815
6
For Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautiful expression
669
7
Experimental blood test detects cancer up to four years before symptoms appear
650
8
Landmark computer science proof cascades through physics and math
636
9
$1 hearing aid could treat millions with hearing loss
633
10
BlackRock’s decision to dump coal signals what’s next
627

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Every Google result now looks like an ad
3592
2
macOS unable to open any non-Apple application
2603
3
John Conway has died
2305
4
iOS14 reveals that TikTok may snoop clipboard contents every few keystrokes
1847
5
Apple does not keep the 30% commission on a refund
1594
6
This electrical transmission tower has a problem
1588
7
AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service
1466
8
Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results
1375
9
Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft
1337
10
A warning about Glassdoor
1262

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
4240
2
Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
2292
3
GitHub Codespaces
1769
4
Shirt Without Stripes
1676
5
Extremely disillusioned with technology. Please help
1527
6
Zero-click, wormable, cross-platform remote code execution in Microsoft Teams
1307
7
I no longer build software
1287
8
Just Wanted to Say Thanks
1244
9
How to Exit Vim
1111
10
YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git
1098

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Bert Sutherland Has Died
680
2
Whale fall
491
3
1% rule
465
4
Bardcore
454
5
Pantone 448 C
442
6
Mondragon Corporation
442
7
Lamest Edit Wars
441
8
Two capacitor paradox
438
9
Boids
391
10
Monobloc chair
381

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Forget Google, time to end the Visa-MasterCard duopoly
1100
2
How to Think for Yourself
1090
3
When your coworker does great work, tell their manager
1074
4
Things I wished more developers knew about databases
1011
5
How to Write Usefully
821
6
I Was Google’s Head of International Relations
815
7
Coronavirus and Credibility
724
8
YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account
674
9
Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy Is Killing You
662
10
Modeling a Wealth Tax
645

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
ARM chips have an instruction with JavaScript in the name
406
2
How does Chrome decide what to highlight when you double-click Japanese text?
269
3
Why does `True == False is False` evaluate to False in Python? (2013)
268
4
Sorting 1M 8-digit numbers in 1 MB of RAM (2012)
266
5
What is your favorite C programming trick? (2009)
229
6
What is the smallest possible valid PDF?
176
7
Is it normal that I see others’ Redis data on shared hosting?
144
8
Why is subtracting these two times in 1927 giving a strange result? (2011)
108
9
Parsing city of origin and destination city from a string
104
10
Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?
77

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
My Resignation from the Intercept
1441
2
Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage
1393
3
Career advice for people with bad luck
981
4
Using Anki to remember what you read
901
5
How to Get Promoted
788
6
Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature
671
7
Google Maps' Moat Is Evaporating
628
8
Software will eat software in a remote-first world
619
9
LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe
613
10
The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire
531